IHE Testing and Tools Committee 2009-07-06 Teleconference Minutes

Attendees

• Didi Davis - CareSpark
• Chris Lindop - GE
• Cor Loef - Philips
• Bill Majurski - NIST
• Steve Moore - Mallinckrodt Inst.
• Charles Parisot - GE
• Eric Poiseau - INRIA
• Chris Carr - RSNA
• Joan McMillen - RSNA
• Nichole Drye-Mayo - RSNA

Minutes

1) Connectathon Guidelines

• Reviewed draft guidelines document

• Add more specific guidelines about events that combine IHE testing with other sorts of testing

• Additional comments invited until close of business today.

• Action Item: Chris Carr to send amended document to Board for approval on its Thursday, July 9 tcon

• Announcement in coordination with announcement of Training Event will follow
• Need specific follow up with national deployment groups (approved and in formation) to make them familiar with requirements

2) IHE Connectathon Manager Training Event

• October 14-16, 2009 in Paris

• Meeting rooms in INRIA facility in 13th arrondisement

• Pricing/fee collection

• Fees set on 4/27 tcon:

• $4000/individual
• $7000 for two representatives from a single organization
• $10000 for three or more (up to five) from a single organization--as space is available

• Excess funds to be contributed to a pool for supporting development of test tools
• IHE Europe, with COCIR as secretariat, may be in a position to perform accounting

• Action Item: Chris Carr will discuss with Peter Kuenecke about how funds will be collected and distributed

• Announcement and invitation

• Recruitment in US: HIEs and related projects; address cost concerns
• Include statement about use of net revenues for tools production
• Include themes, but not detailed agenda
• Action Item: Steve and Eric will start draft by end of week for distribution by July 13

• Close of registration deadline: Sept. 15
• Minimum participants to hold event:

• At least 3 organizations, at least one of which has to be an IHE regional/national deployment committee
• EPSOS representatives may participate

3) Gazelle Update

• Staff reshuffling has caused some delays
• Vienna used Gazelle for registration and Kudu for testing
• IHE North America Connectathon 2010 likely to use Kudu for registration and testing

• Would allow INRIA to focus exclusively on testing platform development

• INRIA/Rennes working on Web GUI and underlying test platform development (based on BPEL)

• Can now launch tests from Gazelle
• Goal to have test platform released by October

• Opening registration for Europe 2010 in October: will be completely based on Gazelle

• Mallinckrodt/St. Louis working on lower-level test definitions and test plans

• Need to translate existing tests (600 test scripts) into language used for test definition in Gazelle

• NIST conferences and contract tenders may come in late summer (September)

• IHE project goal is to make Gazelle the development platform for NIST testing tools; avoid having NIST develop additional platform; advantageous to be able to demonstrate test platform
• Rob Snelick is currently writing spec for NIST to issue to contractors

• Possible to demonstrate test definition tools, external validation service; Eric's lab has instance of test platform in place to use for demonstration purposes

• Action Item: Chris Carr to invite Rob Snelick and Lisa Carnahan to Gazelle demonstration/update tcon (Webex)

• Suggest to Lisa on her return next week; include Rob Snelick if possible; schedule before July 22 (beginning of Eric's vacation)

• Greater visibility for Gazelle on ihe.net Website also required

4) Registry

• New release opened two weeks ago; minor bug fixes have taken place since
• Time for general invitation to participants

• Action Item: Chris Carr to include call for submissions in next ihenews release

5) Federal Health Architecture Connect Conference

• Didi Davis reported on two-day conference (June 29-30)

• David Blumenthal keynote address

• ONC reassembling its team: Leslie Powers lead contact

• NHIN work groups held concurrently

• Security
• Governance

• Promoted Connect Open Source Gateway

• Downloadable open source code based on federal health architecture requirements

• CCHIT in attendance

• NHIN may leverage CCHIT testing infrastructure (using NIST and Mitre testing tools) and develop reference implementation groups can test against

• NHIN open source code diverges from IHE XCA and XCPD profiles
• Presentations available on Connect Open Source Website

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